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UNC Study: Young Women Know Tanning Beds Harm, Use Them Anyway
By Rose Hoban As lawmakers worked their way through a bill to ban tanning beds for teens under 18 years old last summer, researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill were asking young women what they thought about...
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Cancer Deaths Continue Downward Trend in NC, US
By Rose Hoban An IV chemotherapy bag hangs in the treatment ward at the North Carolina Cancer Hospital in Chapel Hill. Photo credit: Rose Hoban New numbers compiled by the Centers for Disease Control...
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More Women Getting Breast Screenings Under Medicaid Expansion
By Lynne Shallcross Kaiser Health News If you’re a low-income woman, you’re more likely to get screened for breast cancer if you live in a state that expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act...
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Biden Urges Cancer Research Community to Aim High
As part of President Obama’s “Cancer Moonshot” initiative, Vice President Joe Biden visited Duke yesterday. By Rose Hoban The future of cancer treatment is within reach. It just needs some rocket...
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High Death Rates in Cancer ‘Hotspots’ Across NC
By Minali Nigam Cancer has been the leading cause of the death in North Carolina since 2009, when it surpassed heart disease as the Grim Reaper’s best friend here. Combining death rates from all types...
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NC Cancer Centers Cite Progress Based on Teamwork
North Carolina’s cancer centers push the boundaries of research into the dreaded disease. By Thomas Goldsmith Radiation. Cancer chemotherapy. Lumpectomy. Mastectomy. Could all of these interventions...
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$2 billion Roundup verdict may be just the beginning
By Greg Barnes Class-action lawyers have been circling on social media since a jury decided earlier this month that a California couple deserves more than $2 billion for the cancer they say was caused...
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Radio device shows promise as liver cancer treatment, NC study finds
By Yen Duong Radio waves can entertain and inform you when driving around, but tweak the frequency and amplitude just right and it could save lives, according to a new study by researchers from Wake...
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Uterine cancer cases rising, outcomes worsening especially for Black women
By Rachel Crumpler Light spotting. Constipation. Feeling tired. Skin losing its glow. Martha Jean Williams, 57 at the time, dismissed all of it as routine aging. Months later, in October 2012, she...
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Prostate cancer survivors, advocates urge more early screening, especially in...
By Rachel Crumpler Victor Taylor is proud to be known around New Bern as “Mr. Prostate Cancer Man.” That’s because ever since he was diagnosed with prostate cancer 18 years ago, he’s been a vocal...
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